Usually means: Forced feeding through a tube.
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  1. gavage: Merriam-Webster
  2. gavage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gavage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gavage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gavage: Vocabulary.com
  6. gavage: Wordnik
  7. gavage: Wiktionary
  8. gavage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gavage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gavage: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. gavage: Dictionary.com
  12. Gavage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  14. gavage: FreeDictionary.org
  15. gavage: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. gavage: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. gavage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gavage: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. gavage: Medical dictionary

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  1. gavage: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gavage)

noun:  A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras
noun:  A process of force-feeding cattle for veal
noun:  (medicine) Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach
verb:  To stuff or glut with something

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